Railway-track.



L. B REWSTBR.

RAILWAY TRACK.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1e, 1913.

v1,085,01 5, Patented .131120, 1914.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAFH co.. WASHINGTON. D. c4

LEE BREWSTEE, 0F TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI.

RAILWAY-TRACK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan.' 20, 191A.

Application filed March 1S, 1913. Serial No. 755,235.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LEE Bnisws'rnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tupelo, in the county of Lee and State of Mississippi, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway-Tracks, of which the following is a specification.

rlhe present invention relates to railway tracks.

In carrying out my invention I aim to facilitate the building of railroads to reduce the cost of construction, to increase the durabilitv of the rails, and to prevent danger incident to the wear of the abutting ends of the rails in the track.

l also aim to construct a railroad rail, a railway chair, a cross tie, to form a complete railway track.

lilith the above recited objects in view and others which will appear as the nature of the invention is more fully disclosed, the improvement resides in the construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a top plan view of a section' of a track showing the continuity of the top surface of the rail as required to prevent the abutting ends of the rails from Wearing out more rapidly than their central portions, Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of nig. 1, Fig. 3 is a similar View upon the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, Fig. 4l is a detail perspective view of the base plate or chair, and Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional View .of the modified forni of the rails and base plate or chair for supporting the rails.

In carrying out my invention I construct a rail of two mating parts A and A. These parts are so constructed that each is complete in itself and can be set on either side of the track, so that each piece is reversible endwise, which materially facilitates building a track or repairing a track.

Each of the mating parts A and A com- Jprises a head l, a web 2 and a base flange 3 which is formed integrally of the web and auanged to one side of said web. The head 1 of each of said parts has its inner face arranged beyond the plane of the inner face or web 2, the projecting sides or faces of the rails being designated by the numerals A. The sides A have their meeting faces vertically straight and are adapted to abut when the parts A and A are assembled. The webs 2 below the heads 1 are provided with registering transverse openings for the reception of bolts 5 andnuts 6. The bases it will be understood, are arranged upon the opposite faces of the rail, and the said bases are provided with vertical openings 7.

The numeral 8 designates the chair or base for the rail. The base comprises a plurality of rectangular plates 8 which have their upper faces formed with substantially rectangular continuous lug 9, the said lug being of a width substantially equal to the dist-ance between the inner faces of the members A and A. The lug 9 projects above the plates 8 a distance approximately equaling the thickness of the flanges 3 at their junctures with the webs 2, so that the said lug is disposed a considerable distance below the connecting bolts 5, and said lug provides a spacing element for the lower portion of the rail. The plates 8 are provided with openings 10 which register with the openings 7, and passing through said openings are securing bolts 11 provided with retaining nuts 12.

By reference to Fig. 1 of the drawing, it will be noted that the parts A and A have their joints broken, or in other words, one of the ends of one of said parts, say, part A, is arranged approximately intermediate of the second mating part A. At the meeting ends of either of the mating parts, I employ short angle bars 13 which have suitable openings 1A and 15 for the reception of the bolts 5 and 11, and so it will be noted that independent securing means for the fish plates are notI necessitated.

From the above description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be noted that the securing elements 6 and 5 are disposed directly below the heads l of the mating parts of the rail, and are adapted to at all times force the mating faces of the heads into tight frictional engagement with each other, so that the heads of the rails will be at all times retained in proper register, while the lugs 9 properly space the lower portions of the parts A and A.

As clearly shown in Fig. A of the drawings7 the lug 9 may comprise a continuous rib which is disposed centrally of the plate S of the chair 8 and the spike openings as well as the bolt openings 10 are staggered; that is, the spike openings are not arranged diametrically opposite each other, and also that the bolt openings are not arranged opposite the spike openings or notches.

In Fig. 5 the mating parts R-lt of the rails have their inner faces centrally channeled7 so that the flat vertical Walls upon the inner faces of said parts abut, as do the lower inwardly projecting` portions S provided upon the lower or hase portion of said parts R-R. The hase plate B upon which the sections rest comprises a fiat plate which has its opposite longitudinal edges notched for the reception of securing spikes and is provided with staggered. openings for the reception of holt members T which project through the holt openings in the hanged portions of the members R-R. The ftanges may he, and preferably are, provided with Washers VJ which have their lower faces angular so as to provide an upper face Whereon the nuts N may snugly engage.

What Claim as new is:

In a rail construction, mating parts each comprising a head, a web and a base iiange formed upon the outer face of each of the Webs, the heads having their inner faces eX- tending` inwardly beyond the plane of the Web, the parts upon one of the faces of the rail having their mating ends arranged away from the meeting ends of the parts upon the opposite face of the rail, connecting` memhers arranged below the heads of the parts,

be secured to the rail by the elements connecting the mating parts and the chair plate With the rail.

fn testimony whereof l affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

LEE BREWSTER. Witnesses W; I. BROWN, P; S. ARMOR.

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